Did not say Vivekananda, Dawood IQ same: Gadkari

November 05, 2012 11:50

As expected BJP president Nitin Gadkari does a quick backtrack on his statement comparing the IQ levels of Swami Vivekananda and gangster Dawood Ibrahim. Gadkari says he was misquoted.

Gadkari said the intelligence quotient level of Swami Vivekanand and Dawood Ibrahim was almost the same, but the spiritual leader had used it for nation building while the underworld don for pursuing crime.

"In psychology, we measure IQ level of people... But it depends from person to person, in which area they use their intelligence," Gadkari said at an award ceremony here.

"As per psychology if we can compare the IQ level of Swami Vivekanand and that of Dawood Ibrahim, then it could have been almost the same. But Vivekanand used it in nation building, brotherhood and spiritualism while Dawood used that in excelling in crime world," he added.

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